Brown - interview in clinical Flashcards
What is the aim of Brown?
To see how self-esteem, support and life events impacted on onset of Depression
How big was the sample in Brown?
395
What is the sample of Brown?
Women ages 18-50 from London who had a husband with a manual job or were a single mother via a postal questionnaire
What type of structure did this study use?
Prospective
What happened at the first stage of the study?
They were interviewed about their self-esteem and the social support in their lives (and psychiatric stress)
What type of interviews were administered in this study?
Semi-structured
How many women were intensely interviewed?
21
How long was the interval between the first part and second part of Brown?
1 year
Why were some women removed from the study during the second phase?
They had depression in stage 1 so had to be excluded in stage 2
What were the results about life events?
32/303 women had depression, 29 of the 32 had experienced some major life event
What were the results about self-esteem?
33% of those who developed depression had negative evaluation of the self and 13% did not.
What were the results about social support/crisis support?
They mostly found core crisis support (85 of 92) helpful
What is a strength of the sample?
It is a large sample (395) making it more generalisable to a wider population
What is are weaknesses of the sample?
The sample is ethnocentric as they’re all from London and only included women so is also Gynocentric (and all have shared characteristics as they’re similar)
Why is prospective study structure good?
It eliminated retrospective bias from influencing the results
Why is Brown reliable? Can you counter argue?
It is largely reliable because it used semi-structured interviews where most of the questions would be the same-but some are not (which could lower reliability)
Is Brown high in inter-rater reliability?
Yes- many of the women’s interviews were recorded and then looked at by another interviewer
Why is it a positive the eliminated women from stage 2 who were found to have depression in stage 1?
Their depression might have influenced their self-esteem making the findings about how self-esteem causes depression less valid
What is an issue with this study using interviews?
Social desirability, the women might lie to appear a certain way
Are there any ethical issues in Brown?
The women in the study might be somewhat upset about talking about their social support and serious life events (but it is just an interview so it isn’t a major ethical issue)
